Learning to spot the AI phone scammers

Scam phone calls are a fact of life these days, whether it’s home improvement grants or someone pretending to be your bank. UK mobile network O2 recently blocked 50 million dodgy calls monthly using its defense system. But now they’re often being made using AI rather than real people in distant call centers. Naveed Janmohamed, CEO and founder of the AI research assistant Anara, says learning to spot artificial voices during phone calls might save thousands of people from sophisticated cons that have already stolen millions from unsuspecting consumers. Voice-cloning tools now pump out startlingly real sounding fake calls at costs lower than ever. Criminal gangs… [Continue Reading]